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Login/Join to ParticipateMacaque of all trades
8,738 posts
Location: wombling free..., United Kingdom
Just thought I would find out where all you crazy people work...
I expect a range from No job to president of the silly islands but would be nice to get an idea of how diverse the spinning community actually is......
I work in Shipping (Imports and Exports) and it is duuuulllllllllllllllllll.
But been doing it sooo long that I have loads of experience in logistics (nothing like my Sport or biology degree)
A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.
veteran
1,433 posts
Location: 8 days at Cloudbreak, 6 in Perth, Australia
I work at a government college on the phone systems...I answer student amd prospective student enquiries...very thrilling stuff....
Carpal \'Tunnel
5,814 posts
Location: Perth, Australia
But you might be leaving soon ..arent you Medusa!!
Is it the Truth?
Is it Fair to all concerned?
Will it build Goodwill and Better Friendships?
Will it be Beneficial to all concerned?
Im in a lonely battle with the world with a fish to match the chip on my shoulder. Gnu in Binnu in a cnu
veteran
1,433 posts
Location: 8 days at Cloudbreak, 6 in Perth, Australia
Yes thank goodness....but that is only a maybe....
Other than that I have also done:
Kindergarten worker
Accounts payable and recievable
Check out chick in a hardware store
Apprentice Chef
Adult Community Education Co-ordinator
Advertising
Marketing
School Liaison Officer
I might get to actually use all my skills when and if I actually do go...
Pooh-Bah
2,084 posts
Location: melbourne, victoria, australia
i work with people who have disabilities. I'm a casual at the moment cos i'm doing nursing at uni now, but i was full time for a few years. the main place i work at is an adult day center, so i work with 20 clients with severe disabilities. we run recreational and skill development programs, like physio, cooking, outings etc.
i love it, i love the people that i work with: staff and clients. it's sort of like a family (a big noisy family!), and it was really hard for me when i went back to uni and had to go casual. it can be bloody hard work, and i work with a few people with really challenging behavours, but i'd prefer that than being bored or dissatisfied with my job.
Carpal \'Tunnel
5,814 posts
Location: Perth, Australia
Mostly Im at home with the family but I do occasional poi skills at a circus course and volunteer work for a hobby group teaching about various medieval things.
Before that in a lab or two.
Much less than Medusa
Is it the Truth?
Is it Fair to all concerned?
Will it build Goodwill and Better Friendships?
Will it be Beneficial to all concerned?
Im in a lonely battle with the world with a fish to match the chip on my shoulder. Gnu in Binnu in a cnu
Macaque of all trades
8,738 posts
Location: wombling free..., United Kingdom
Are you loz, sqarexedge? take it you know aimee.
sure i've met you
A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.
Macaque of all trades
8,738 posts
Location: wombling free..., United Kingdom
WHAT are crumpets? cake bread? need to know PM me (or president Nuggit)
A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.
[psylocibin fingerbobe].
479 posts
Location: London, United Kingdom
I'm a software developer working in Holborn.
It's really busy too, as you can tell
Muddy fingernails
505 posts
Location: Way oop norf, Scotland (UK)
Chemistry and Biology teacher, High school level.
Currently in the laast week before the holidays start, so getting the little angels (!) to do any work is like getting blood out of a stone!
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
KITTENS!!!!
....of doom!
585 posts
Location: Hastings, UK
hello lee, yes its loz..and yes we have met..in fact, i took that rather fetching photo you are sporting as your avatar. when are you coming back down?
Macaque of all trades
8,738 posts
Location: wombling free..., United Kingdom
*punches air* YES!
What a memory...Not sure yet...aimee said somink about you coming this wayover the summer? think you'll meet LOTS of people.
Have no time off at mo (Except holiday to scotland 6days away and falmouth)
and em cannot get time off during school holidays, butwe will be back OH yes we will...
A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.
....of doom!
585 posts
Location: Hastings, UK
lol aimee likes to plan things without asking me or my bank balance or whether i can get the time off work. it would be nice, but since a selfish selfish colleague has taken the whole [censored] summer off, i cant get any time off whatsoever. growl.
Macaque of all trades
8,738 posts
Location: wombling free..., United Kingdom
boo,, hiss (not fair) A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.
10,530 posts
Location: They seek him here, they seek him there...
not that i care or anything 
The existance of flamethrowers says that someone, somewhere, at sometime said "I need to set that thing on fire, but it's too far away."
....of doom!
585 posts
Location: Hastings, UK
old hand
853 posts
Location: Behind you...
Jobs i've done...
checkout assistant at tesco
cleaner
factory worker
babysitter
receptionist
waitress at a golf club
office junior at package delivery firm
page checker/scanner at publishing firm
clerical assistant for NHS
events and membership assistant at BAFTA
fundraising, events and marketing co-ordinator at a Hospice
...I'm also still finising my degree, then plan to do training as a yoga teacher and train in other complementary therapies or massage. I'm fed up with admin work.
Idolized by Aurinoko
Take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind....
Bob Dylan
mischeivious pixie
291 posts
Location: Sydney, Australia
i book conference calls for a living, very very dull, but i get to play on the internet all day too, which is about the only bonous to it.
"I dont want no fatty bumbum, i want a lean mean shagging machine" anon
"I'm sweet and wholesome with a little bit of filth thrown in"
What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
Self-Flagellation Expert
3,414 posts
Location: Bogged at CG, Australia
At the moment, i'm a full time pre-trade student, learning the mysteries of electricty. Its a year-long course that knocks 6 months off of my apprenticeship. Anyone else see what i see in that maths?
Before this:
-Laboratory electrical technician assistant (work experience)
-Stock replenishment (fancy name i coined for nightfill)
-Food delivery assistant (ok, i drove pizzas)
-6 months of uni, full time. Bachelor of applied science (civil aviation)
-Butcher assistant - cleaning (great. 4 hours per day of cleaning up blood. just what you need after a day at school)
-Burger flipper at hungry jacks (aka burger king)
-Driveway maintenance (fancy name for yardboy)
I love making up cool names for jobs. even if it's not my proper job title, as long as its not incorrect, and sounds really good.
"beg beg grovel beg grovel"
"master"
--FSA
"There was an arse there, i couldn't help myself"
--Rougie
3,380 posts
Location: At the bottom of the garden with the fairies...
i am a fairy. i give people magic kisses and big hugs
THWACK!!!!
Liz_Ard: Ouch!
SNOOPoi: Thats just not the sound of someone doing it right!
I'd be in trouble if I had to eat an antelope now
278 posts
Location: The Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom
i'm not quite president of the scilly isles, but beinga barman many would say its just as important!
"Everything in moderation. Even moderation itself. From this it follows that you must, from time to time, have excess. And this is going to be one of those occasions"
693 posts
Location: Adelaide - South Australia
High school Teacher (pre-service at the moment)
Biology
Science
English for Second Language Learners
- Employable as of July
Have been/done:
Data 'cleaning' and analysis for Pharm company
Sales Assistant - Oxfam
Insurance - Claims and Sales
Market Research
Factory picking and packing (Automotive)
Cherry Picking
Street Performance
Student bum...
Unemployed bum.....
Fairy...
Love and Light
~*~ Katinca ~*~
7,193 posts
Location: in the trees
i'm a tubular access tecnichion........ basicly i'm hairy assed scaffolder (with out the hairy ass haha)
i've worked in many places ranging from street work, new builds, building sites and my present place of employment is on a chemical factory that makes agro-chemicals amongst other things. i do like my job but get
off with it some times, like when i want to go traveling and know i cant 'cos of work etc.previous employment:- trained mechanic, cable layer, trench digger (by hand) and full time jobless bum for 1year
Carpal \'Tunnel
4,172 posts
Location: Hastings, United Kingdom
I'm a junior care assistamt in a rest home on saturdays.
197 posts
Location: Bolton
I work at Games Workshop Bolton.
You know i'm cool.
Damn the addictiveness of forums! (Or should it be addictivity?)
old hand
740 posts
Location: Darkest Bedford., United Kingdom
Wine merchant. Nice but not awfully exciting.
Other embarassing things in days gone by...
But not telling!
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4,308 posts
Location: York, England
If you mean what do i get paid for, i teach people to take standardised tests. (GMAT, GRE, LSAT, SAT, ACT, etc)
Keep your dream alive
Dreamin is still how the strong survive
Shalom VeAhavah
New Hampshire has a point....
addict
584 posts
Location: Sunshine Coast, Australia
nothing at the moment. Used to be a baker, got sick and tired of having no life due to the shitty hours. Now I'm studying to be a Propery Manager. Give me a job!!!!!!
Never hold your farts in! They travel up your spine, go into your brain and that's where shitty idea's come from.
addict
529 posts
Location: North Shore, New Zealand
i manage a warehouse that sells wood preservatives,inspection supplies and associated chemicals-
it is not very fun
Why does Superman stop bullets with his chest, but ducks when you throw
a revolver at him?
1,262 posts
Location: Cornwall & Oxford
up until friday i worked for Eurocamp in France, now im back coz its a crappy job and working for my lovely fun employer, 'the worlds local bank' its fab and much better money
i am currently trying to teach the financial planning manager how to juggle 
Aim high and you'll know your limits, aim low and you'll never know how high you could have climbed.
2,865 posts
Location: Lake District UK
barman and student
Remember.........YOU LOSE!!!
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